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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 24 February 1891, Page 2

The vestry of All Saints' Church met on Friday evening, under the chairmanship of the Rev. Mr Jones. It was determined to ask the trustees of the money raised by the last bazaar, to 'alter its purpose, ami to hand it over to the vestry for the erection of a Sunday School. Mr Trask has made quick headway with the Avenue culvert, and will soon have it complated. On Friday Mr Brabant holds the Assessment Court. We understand that there are only three objection « lodged against Mr Gibson's valuation, which speaks highly for the careful manner in which it lias been prepared. The contractors for the metalling have been much di.-lr.yal owing to water in the •pit, a most unusual thing at this time of year. They have, however, made another start. i ■ • Tenders for leasing the Wirokinn Ferry must be sent in to the Town < Merle by noon of Monday next. The Borough Council invite tender* mi carting. '.■■■. Tenders for Hanging are iuvited, and aro to be sentjin by noon of Monday. We are sofvy to heaV that Mr William Atkins died last week ai Pa merston. The Primate will probably hold a conrirI mation service on the 14th of next month. Land changes finely in this district. Mr Bernard Gowcr .having, secured a leas < of Mr Honore's land a feather ea, and Mr Ellis having' taken the farm at Moutoa, lately occupied by Mr Thorpe Mr J. (i, Wi son the other day forwarded some extracts from- papers published as to cooling dairies. One suggestion made is eminently simple and practicable, and that is to conduct a pipe from some distance underground, five feet, and allow it to open out in the floor of the dairy. Of course the other end must be exposed to the air. It is the passage of th» air throvfgh the pipes nnder the ground which cools it. The unfortunate South Australian Government did not appreciate the importance that the London money-lender places in his being able to obtain his " pound of flesh," and their loan has met with a sal disaster. Money is plentiful' at Home, and another on.c per cent into these gentlemen's pockets would have assured its going off. Even yet a firm has offered to take up £100,000 ' of ' the loan "immediately and the balance in June, at the minimum at which the loan was placed, orf condition that interest is paid from the date of issue. Only a ques» tion of " how much ?' . The French-are good financiers, yet they can never be got to appreciatae the efforts of English financiers— as far as regards Egypt. I*br the last twelvemonths, the result of care on. the part of the English officers, the reventfe of- Egypt showed a surplus of half a million ! exceedingly satisfactory for the. state of the country. The cables ho *• inform us that France refuses to give her consentHo the Utilisation of the : H«rplns resnltiag'tptim'- tlte conversion of the Egyptian debt. Also' that the French Government angrily pvotest against Judge Scott's judiciary reforms. in Egypt.. How•ever.thorfe who knows most, and are most interested, the -Khedive/, and Rijjz Pasha, President of: the Council; decline to listen to the protest. Sb : they, should, as it is a many a long da^v-ajnee surpluses have been common. " . ';■... .-•.An-' Auckland yachting party, comprising four- young nieri, viz., I*. Whitney, A. Stephens, G. J. Hale, and .1. Burnsido, who left Chamberlain's Island for Wairoa Strath, about five or six miles distant from Auckland, on Sunday evening, have not since been heaud of.* The weather on unday night was" very squily with a big sea running. Search parties comprising relatives of the missing arc out. On Friday the body was found of Lionel Whitney; a young mau of 22 years, son of Capt. Whitney, of the (Jo'onial Ammunition Factory. The remains wery found washed upon the foreshore at Maraetai. i The Wanganui Herald say*:— "Mr Jackman, brewer expert and Customs officer, in North Island got tines imposed to the extent of £3000. As he is paid a percentage, the result system must have been profitable to Mr Jackman." We must hope that these., things will b • managed betterby the present Government ? . !•■ At a meeting of the Committee of the Manawatu Baoing Club at the Commercial Hotel last evening, it was derided to- ad 1 a Cavalry Race of 20 soys. to the programme for the Hack Meeting on March 2Sih, provided the Metropolitan Club approved of the addition. Mr L. Proctor was (.^pointed Cle-k of the Course vice Mr W. K ■*<, who will be unable to attend the ineHiug. M. . Times. . Another opening for the " working man" politician. Natal has been -grantel' responsible government, but Zulu-land ifi to. remain under Imperial control.

The Chilian insurgents have captured Iquiqui, and have destroyed the tcvn of Pisagua by a bombardment. The estimated cost of the construction of the buildings for tne Chicago World's Fair, which opens o>> May Ist., 1893, 13,000,000 dill are. In reply to a question in the Hoy.se of Commons, the Seer'. .;' for War said the arming of coaling u**.'.i ; ) • ; was on the verge of completetion. The iu'inament was also ready for King George's Sound, ail I Torres Straits-, though the colonies had riot yet prepared the necessary svorks to nidnrit the gunSi Messrs Stevens and Gorton announce the date of their next stock sale. Messrs Loveday Brrthers have arranged for the erection of nev fren'is'es 1 In Palmer- ' stoli. Tlie site secured is a plot of land in the square, adjoining Mr Hankin's offices. They have shown;, us • the plans of the new building fgl ', tshibh, they accepted tenders, and the total frontage is sixty six foot with a'depth of th.'vt* feet; and a heigl'.th of hVetity one feet. It is divided into three shops, the centre of which will ibc occupied by the Messrs Loveday, though 'eventually they expect to use the whole three. Messrs Peddie and Dunstall are the i successful tenderers, though the price is j with-held. There tfei'e a large niiinter of tenders received from Palmprston and the *onth Island. The local tenderers were; Messrs Cole; Fleming; Robbie and Urry : Laurenson and Dawe ; Kibblewhite and Taylor; Monroe. rßverift and Short t Mai*, colm; and Peddle iJilii lKhishlii. The building is to be finished in eight weeks. Several London brewers and large owners^ of horses having adopted the elastic, steel collars for heavy draught work and found them very satisfaeto y, a trial is being now made with them at Aldershot by batteries of the Royal • rtillery and other mounted corps. The chief advantage of these col lars is that they are cool and do not gall the neck like the ordinary leather onn, nnd. in addition, are durablo and strong. They, however, do not look so smart as th;> leather collars, but that is a M-eondary m titter. A relic of old times smuggling ha> been mentioned in connection with the Abbey. Mr Labouvchere occupies a house under the shadow of that pi!».' and objects to any encroachments, as he says that the chief attraction which the house has for him is that it possesses a subterranean passage excavated by some unknown conspirator of the past, and running right under the centre of the floDr of the House of Lords, tind thus affording* facilities for "ending" that institution if" all chance of " mending" it fails. The opinion among antiquaries is that the passage was not excavated with any political object, but simply for conv«-nience of smuggling hogsheads of foreign wine from barges in the river. It would, ho vever, obviously spoil a good joke to push on the work of clearing the debris so as to prove that the tunnel had an exit at the river side, and beyond the point under the woolsack the passage remains blocked. The Cash C'eariug Sale of Jobberns & Co. Bankrupt Stock by Ross & Sani>?ori>, in Main Street, Foxton is still proceeding with unabated interest. Cash purchasers of Drapery <% Clothing are invited to pay an early visit of inspection. Boss & S.W-u---roitn. To-morrow we invite special attention to the remarkably cheap le ts in our dres departmeut at Te Aro House, those who will

throng that counter and make their selections from the array of bargains displayed will have every reason to be thankfnl for the institution of " The Fair." To morrow we shall offer dress lengths of French cashmeres in several beautiful shades of the new greens at 25s for 12a Od, dress le gths of the fashionable coloured mohairs at 15s for 10s fid and dress lengths of black grenadines reduced to 5s IKI at "The Fair" Te Avo House. To-morrow we shall sell full dress lengths of the following double width material, viz: — Delairns at 9s lid for to 1 Id. Escarte at 12s (kl for 8s lid. Beiges at IDs Gd for 10s Gd, Knicker Tweedr. at 21s for 12* fid. Striped Cashmeres at lGs 6d and Figured Sittings at 21s fid for 15 M at '• The Fair " Te Aro House. Tomorrow we shall show dress lengths of summer mohairs, reduced from 5s Gd to 2s lid summer checks reduced from 7s fid to 3s lid, summer flakes reduced from 8s fid to 4s lid summer tweeds reduced from 12s to (is fid at " The Fair " Te Aro House. To-morrow we have resolved to clear out ' all our ilemnants of Black Satins, Coloured Satins, Black Silks, Coloured Silks, B"ack Silk Velvets, Coloured Silk Velvets and all drees fabrics at ha f price at " The Fp.ir," Wellington.